逼
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to force (sb to do sth); to compel; to press for; to extort; to press on towards; to press up to; to close in on; euphemistic variant of 屄[bi1]
- HSK 3.0
- Level 6
- Old HSK
- Level 6
- Strokes
- 12
- Radical
- 辵 +9
- Structure
- Lower-left enclosure 左下包
- Traditional
- 逼
- Common rank
- #1,389
- Unicode
- U+903C
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Formation & memory
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How 逼 is formed
Phono-semantic compound (形声字)
辶 meaning “walk” + 畐 sound
Components 辶 畐
How to remember it
press · Heisig RSH #1619
wealth + road
Keyword method from Heisig's Remembering Simplified Hanzi.
Words with 逼
The most common words first — learning a character in context makes it stick.
| Word | Pinyin | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| 官逼民反 | a government official drives the people to revolt (idiom); a minister provokes a rebellion… | |
| 高逼格 | (slang) high-end; classy | |
| 社交牛逼症 | (neologism, attested by 2021) (slang) extreme gregariousness; over-the-top confidence in s… | |
| 逼上梁山 | driven to join the Liangshan Mountain rebels; to drive to revolt; to force sb to desperate… | |
| 逼人 | pressing; threatening | |
| 二逼 | variant of 二屄[er4 bi1] | |
| 逼格 | (slang) pretentious style | |
| 逼和 | to force a draw (in chess, competition etc) | |
| 逼死 | to hound sb to death | |
| 进逼 | to advance on sth; to press closely (on some goal) | |
| 牛逼 | variant of 牛屄[niu2 bi1] | |
| 水刑逼供 | water-boarding, interrogation technique used by CIA | |
| 逼视 | to look at from close up; to watch intently | |
| 装逼 | variant of 裝屄|装屄[zhuang1 bi1] | |
| 倒逼 | (neologism c. 2006) (of circumstances) to stimulate (change, esp. innovation, reform etc) | |
| 逼人太甚 | to push sb too far; to go too far (in oppressing people) | |
| 强逼 | to compel; to force | |
| 逼真 | lifelike; true to life; distinctly; clearly | |
| 逼供信 | to obtain confessions by compulsion; confession under duress | |
| 苦逼 | (coll.) miserable; wretched |
Sound family
Characters sharing the sound component 畐 — compare how they read.